247Sports has already combined your favorite college and NFL teams with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We've even given chrome makeovers to the college game's top teams. Now, we take a look at what happens when you combine an NFL helmet a local college's color scheme.
247Sports Director of Creative Services Ted Hyman has come up with helmet concepts for teams in the league, including the Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots, using the original helmet design and mixing in the colors of the local college team in the area.
(Intro written by Austin Nivison)
What happened to the Houston Texans' red, white and deep-blue helmet?
Texas A&M's Aggies-style maroon happened to the helmet, that's what.
If the Chargers had stayed in San Diego, then maybe you would've gotten a Chargers-Aztecs mashup here.
But the franchise moved to Los Angeles, so you get what you get: a really awesome Los Angeles Chargers-UCLA Bruins mashup. You're welcome.
Here, the Buffalo Bills meet the Buffalo Bulls.
The AFC East team and the MAC East school make for a perfect fit.
Do not adjust your screen! There is nothing wrong with your device, or your eyes.
This is, indeed, a Los Angeles Rams helmet done up in the USC Trojans' maroon and gold.
If you're a Tennessee Titans fan, you're in luck. This is the first of two Titans helmets here.
This one combines the Titans' logo with the colors of Nashville's own Vanderbilt Commodores.
And here's your bonus Tennessee Titans concept helmet!
This take on the Titans' helmet brings in the Tennessee Volunteers' orange.
The Jags like to mix it up with their uniforms. But they've never mixed it up like this.
Here, the Jacksonville Jaguars' logo meets the colors of the SEC's Florida Gators. It's a Sunshine State mashup.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers seem to be actually moving in the direction of this concept helmet, which brings in the colors of the ACC's Florida Seminoles.
In 2020, the once orange-and-white-favoring Bucs went to a "darker, richer red," as the team's website described the new look.
What's going on here?
The Arizona Cardinals' look has been fired up with the colors of the Pac-12's Arizona Sun Devils.
Wow. Just wow.
Here, the purple-and-black-favoring Baltimore Ravens meet the intricate designs of the Big Ten's Maryland Terrapins.
OK, so, yes, this is a real Miami Dolphins helmet. We wanted you to take a good look before you see the seamless mashup.
This helmet, by the by, is a throwback tribute to the Dolphins' earliest days in the old AFL.
And here's our subtle, college-fied version of the Miami Dolphins' helmet.
This concept helmet features the NFL team's modern dolphin logo with a broad, Miami Hurricanes-style center stripe.
Love the Kansas City Chiefs' classic red helmet?
Well, take one good, long, last look at it. Things are about to get weird.
Don't say we didn't warn you: Things have definitely gotten weird.
Here, the Kansas City Chiefs' classic red helmet gets a makeover courtesy the Big 12's true-blue Kansas Jayhawks.
Red has not been in the Indianapolis Colts' coloring book -- until now.
Here, we've mashed up the Colts' classic look with the coloring of the Big Ten's Indiana Hoosiers.
What happened to Gang Green?
The red-hued Rutgers Scarlet Knights of the Big Ten happened to the New York Jets, that's what.
The NFL's Cincinnati Bengals favor orange and black. The AAC's Cincinnati Bearcats favor red and black.
Together, the Bengals and Bearcats deliver a really cool-looking concept helmet.
The Minnesota Vikings are famous for their purple. But not here.
Here. the Vikings take on the hues of their Big Ten counterparts, the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
This is the first of two Carolina Panthers concept helmets in this collection.
Here, the Panthers meet the SEC's South Carolina Gamecocks.
And here's another -- and bit more controversial -- Carolina Panthers mashup.
This one has the Panthers go out of state to mix it up with the AAC's North Carolina Tar Heels.
This is the real, redesigned Washington helmet from the 2020 NFL season.
While this design reminds us of the classic Alabama Crimson Tide look, we did not use the SEC powerhouse school as the inspiration for our mashup helmet.
For our Washington Football Team concept helmet, we used a Big East school for inspiration -- even if the school is better known for its men's basketball than its football.
Here, the spare Washington design meets the colors of the Georgetown Hoyas.
Wait, what?!
Yup, this is the Chicago Bears' classic dome done up in the lighter, brighter colors of the Big East's DePaul Blue Demons.
We bet that a Las Vegas Raiders mashup with a certain neighboring Mountain West school would be money. And guess what?
Our mashup of the Las Vegas Raiders' helmet with the colors of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels is money.
Here, the New York Giants' classic blue-and-red helmet colors have been banished. Why?
Here's why: When you mix things up with the St. John's Red Storm of the Big East, then you gotta make it bleed red.
Here's another example of an extreme departure from the real thing.
In this concept helmet, the Denver Broncos' usual orange helmet gets a gold-and-black makeover courtesy the Pac-12's Colorado Buffaloes.
This is a whole new look for the Seattle Seahawks.
This concept helmet has taken the NFL team's logo, and cast it in the colors of the Pac-12's purple-hued Washington Huskies.
As NFL fans know, the Philadelphia Eagles' helmet is primarily green. So, what's going on here?
We've mashed up the Eagles' winged logo with the blue hues of the Big East's Villanova Wildcats. The Villanova campus is located about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia.
Brace yourselves, Cheeseheads.
This concept helmet eschews the Green Bay Packers' green and gold for the Wisconsin Badgers' red and white.
Here is the real Pittsburgh Steelers helmet in all its classic glory.
The Steelers' helmet is the only one in the present-day NFL to feature a logo on just one side of the helmet.
In this concept design, the Pittsburgh Steelers' U.S. Steel-inspired logo remains, but everything else about the look changes.
The Steelers' helmet has been redone in the colors of the ACC's Pitt Panthers.
There's been a mix up in Motor City.
The Detroit Lions' gray-and-blue helmet has gone all in on the the Michigan Wolverines' big-blue look.
The New England Patriots' helmet has never looked ... well, more different.
The Pats' usual red, white and blue has given way to the gold and red of the ACC's Boston College Eagles.
Even in the real world, the Cleveland Browns' helmet is not brown ('cause the team was named for a man named Brown, and not the color). But is this a mashup too far?
We think it's a mashup that's just right: It takes the Browns' minimalist design, and casts it in the winning colors of the Big Ten's Ohio State Buckeyes.
This NFL-college mashup is just perfect.
It takes the New Orleans Saints' design, and recasts it with the colors of the SEC's LSU Tigers.
This forward-looking concept design, which borrows the colors from the SEC's Georgia Bulldogs, actually feels pretty close to the Atlanta Falcons' past.
The Falcons donned primarily red helmets from their inception in the mid-1960s all the way through the 1980s.
This is the real deal: the classic Dallas Cowboys helmet.
The silver design made its debut in 1964.
This is not the classic Dallas Cowboys helmet. But it's still pretty cool.
It retains the Cowboys' silver in the lone-star logo, but borrows purple from the Big 12's TCU Horned Frogs.
We couldn't limit ourselves to just one Dallas Cowboys concept helmet -- and we couldn't pass up a chance to marry the Cowboys to the Longhorns.
Here, the Cowboys' silver coloring gives way to Texas' orange and white. What a concept.